Magnolia, Ark. - One year after the two teams combined for 100 points and 1,165 yards of total offense in what has since been dubbed the "Shootout in Shawnee", (RV) Southern Arkansas and Oklahoma Baptist are set to clash in Magnolia as the Muleriders welcome in the Bison for a Great American Conference showdown inside Wilkins Stadium at Rip Powell Field. 

It will be just the fifth meeting all-time between the two programs and Saturday night's tilt will see SAU put its NCAA Division II best 16-game home winning streak on the line for the first time in 2019. 

The Muleriders are 2-0 vs. the Bison at home which includes a 38-20 Homecoming win in 2015. That victory was the first for Southern Arkansas in the aforementioned home winning streak. 

In the previous three matchups with Oklahoma Baptist, the Muleriders have averaged 54.3 points per game, while the average points per game for SAU against the Bison since their first meeting in '15 is 50.3 ppg. Oklahoma Baptist has scored at an average clip of 24.8 ppg against the Muleriders, which includes a series-best 45 points a year ago.

    Last week in the Muleriders' 34-14 season-opening win at Southern Nazarene, it was trench play on both sides of the football for Southern Arkansas that made all the difference. Offensively, SAU accumulated 416 yards of total offense behind a rushing attack that produced 323 yards and three touchdowns on 50 attempts at 6.5 yards per carry. Of the team's 22 first downs in the victory, 18 came on the ground. 

    The Muleriders nearly put three running backs over the century mark in rushing as redshirt freshman Kor'Davion Washington (109 yards) and redshirt senior SirCharles Perkins (103 yards, 2 TDs) both eclipsed 100 yards on the ground, while redshirt sophomore Dennis Daniels recorded 99 yards rushing and a touchdown.

    Defensively, the Muleriders surrendered just 18 yards rushing on 24 attempts at 0.8 yards per rush and allowed just one of SNU's five first downs to come via the ground game. The Crimson Storm did not gain a yard on the ground in the final three quarters.

    Oklahoma Baptist enters Week 2 looking for its first win of the season after suffering a 35-28 home loss to Henderson State on Saturday. Junior quarterback Preston Haire was 26-of-43 passing for 286 yards and three touchdowns in the defeat, while his go-to target was redshirt sophomore Joshua Cornell who hauled in eight passes for 128 yards and a score. Junior Shae Garner recorded seven receptions for 73 yards and a touchdown.

    Haire also served as the team's leading rusher in the season opener as he carried five times for 57 yards with a touchdown. The Reddies' defense held redshirt senior Isaiah Mallory to just 24 yards on 16 attempts.

    A pair of Bison defenders finished with double-digit stops as redshirt junior Josh Arnold recorded a dozen tackles and a sack, while redshirt junior Myles Russell added ten tackles, including a tackle-for-loss.